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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-13
VETERINARY SURGERY

Having completed my studies in veterinary medi-
cine and surgery, am prepared to do all work per
tanning to the same in scientific manner Surgery
and the treatment of lameness a speciality. Geding
performed by new method, without use of clamps.
Calls by telegraph promptly attended to.
l.. c. WAKEFIELD, ID, " s.,
MONTPELIER, vi,
Graduate of the American Veterinary College,
New York City.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-13
The Great Rock Island Route

Guarantees Speed, Comfort and Safety to those who
travel over it, Its roadbed Is thoroughly balastod. Its
track is of heavy steel Its bridges solid structures
stone and iron Itsrong stock Is perfect human
mechanical genius has invented and experience proved
valuable Its practical operation is conservative and
methodcalits discipline strict and exactng. The lux
ury of its passenger accommodation is unequaed in
the West-uasurpassed in the world
All Express Trains between Chicago and the Missouri
River consist of Comfortable Day Coaches magnificent
Pullman Palace Parlor and Sleeping Cars, elegant
Dining Cars providing excellent meals, and-between
Chicago St Joseph Atchison and Kansas Cty-restful
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-13

CUTIcURA REMEDIES are sold everywhere. Price
CuTICURA. fifty cents; REsoLvENT 2l00; SOAP,
twenty-five cents. Prepared by the POTTER pRUG
AND CHEMICAL Co. Boston, Mass. Send for
" How to Cure Skin Diseases."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-13
The Famous Albert Lea Route

Is the direct favorite line between Chicago and Mime
apos and ST. Paul over this solid Fast Express
Trains daily TO the summer resorts, picturesque
localities and hunting and fishing grounds OF Iowa and
Minnesota. The rich wheat fields and grazing lands Of
interior Dakota are reached via Watertown, short
desirable route Seneca and Kankakee offers supe
rlor Inducements to travellers between GincInn9u IN
dianapolis, Lafayette and Council Bluffs st. Joseph
Atchison, teavenworth, Kansas City Minneapolis, St.
Paul and intermediate points: All classes OF patrons
officials and employees Of Rock Island trains protection
For Tickets Maps FOlders-obtainabe at all principal
Ticket Offices in the United States and Canadaor any
desired information, address,
r. r. CABLE. {. ST. John, {. 4. H0LBR00k,
Prss',A G,nlM Asst GsnlMs'r, Gsnl Tst PasS Agt
CHICAGO.
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x IN MAkf X
chicago. ROCK ISL AND &PACIFIC Rail WAY

BY reason gifts central position close relation TO prn
cp1l lines East OF Chicago, and continuous lines
terminal points West, Northwest and Southwest is the
only true middle link in that anscontinental system
which invites and facilitates travel and traffic in either
direction between the Atlantic and Pacific.
The Rock Island main line and branches include Chi
cago, Joliet Ottawa, LaSal;" Peoria Geneseo. Moline
aud Rock Island, in Illinois, Davenport, Museatinc
Washington Fairfield. ottumwa, Oskaloosa, West Lib
erty, Iowa CITY, bes Moinei lndanola Minterset, A.
Council Bluffs in Iowa. Gallan Trenton st. Joseph
Cameron and Kansas City, in Missourii Leavenworth
and Atchison,n Kansas Albert Lea, Minneapolis and
st. Paul, in Minnesota; Watertown. in Dakota and
hundreds Intermediate cities, and villages
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EDVTDS Pmples skin Bemishes and Baby
OhO do. iIumors cured by CUrICURA SOAR
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advertisements.
THE TEACHERS REST
MUSIC BOOKS

at this season is wen earned and should not he dis
turbed. II cannot, however, he annoying in "a
leisurely way 10 think and plnn what
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-13

from the inexhaustible supply described in DIT
son CO.'S catalogues II will he well to use in
the next musical campaign.
nH' Any book mailed for retail price IN
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-05-19
British Fair.PlaY.

The average Englishman docs not
know what fair-play is either in pol tics
or sport. Fair-play is a jewel too ex-
pensive for him. l remember some
years ago attending wrestling match
between two Englishmen, and where
the audience was more than nne-tenths
of the same race. The match was q
good one and yet will guarantee that
of the whole crowd not five of them
really wanted the better man to win.
/ sat beside one burly Briton who had
bet on the larger man of the two, and
when his favorite acquired a momen-
tary advantage over his opponent he
shouted out at the top of his voice:
''Break the buffers back. Tom, and
be done with it." He meant it, and
when the match went against him his
curses could DO heard all over tho
grounds, not because bis man had been
beaten, but because no had lost the
money he had bet on him.-Phila-
delphio Cali
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-05-19
A Good Thing to Have, After All.

The musical patent medicine vend-
ors who sing songs to attract crowd
before exhibiting their wares, find that
their most popular songs are those
which chant the praises of money, its
power to defeat the law, its efficacy as
substitute for talent or honesty or
virtue, its universal recognition as the
one thing needful. The clown in the
circus also sings in the same strain and
the crowd applauds the sentiment to
the echo. This may be taken then as
the average belief, and when one con-
siders how hard most men struggle to
obtain little money, it is not surpris-
ing that such value should be attached
to it. 1t will be found. that in certain
countries England for instance) it is
regarded almost as crime not to have
money; and since it is generally made
test of what one is or has shown
himself capable of doing. it behooves
those who have generous qualities, and
who do not regard money as the chief
badge OF merit or distinction. to avoid
going to the other extreme. and by
spendthrift ways forfeit independence
and incur the contempt of the mob.
Money is very solid fact. although it
is not fit subject of worship, and
those who recklessly throw it away.
from whatever motives, will have ample
cause for repentance. AS the world
goes, the clown and the singing salve
sellers are not far out of the way
Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-05-19
ueer Use for the Darlings,

A farmer name August Pirch, who
lives near Garvanzo, is the happy pos
SCISSOR of dozen fine, healthy children.
These youngsters grow fast, eat three
or four meals day, and the way they
wear out their clothes is enough to
make wooden factory think cyclone
had struck it. Mr.. P.rch has been in
hot water with his little fishes for
years, and was about to give up in
despair, when bright idea struck him.
He had tract of land that could not
be useed for want of water, But how
to irrigate the land without spending a
large sum of money was a mystery.
A ditch would cost thousands of dollars
but corner lots have not been so plen-
tiful in the Pirch family as the happy
father could have wished, and his bank
book simply showed balance of a few
hundreds instead of thousands. He
figured on the cost of well and found
that he could stand sixty foot we'll,
cheap pump and one of those great
big family swings which are noticed
at pleasure-gardens and German pic
mic grounds. The well was bored, the
pump was set up, and the swing was
put in working order.
Here, y GU little rascals," said the
elder Pirch to his little fishes, ''come
out and get in this swing. l am going
to give you something to play with.
In five children were flying back and
forth through the air. The pump
worked up and down making a merry
tune. and a fourteen-inch stream of
water flowed from the well. The
children don't know what they are
working, as the swing is so me distance
from the well, and is connected by an
iron rod which works the pump, and the
swing vibrates back and forth Mr..
Pirch is positive that the youngsters
will pump enough water during the
day to irregate large tract of land
Los AngeIes (Cat.) Times.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-05-19
For Good Purposes.

Mrs. NJ. A. Dauphin of Philadelphia, Is well
known to the ladies of that city from the great
good she has done by means ofLydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. She writes Mrs
Pinkham Of recent interesting case "a
young married lady came to me suffering with
severe case of Proapsus and liberation. She
commenced taking the Compound and in two
months was fully restored. In proof of this she
soon found herself in an interesting condition.
Influenced by foolish friends she attempted to
evade the responsibilities of maturity. After
ten or twelve days she came to me again and
she was indeed in a most alarming state and
suffered terribly. l gave her tablespoonful.
of the compound every hour for eight hours
until she fell asleep, she awoke much relieved
and evidently better. She continued taking
the Compound, and in due season she became
the mother of fine healthy boy. But for the
timely use of the medicine she believes her
life would have been lost "
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-05-19
Classification of Breeds of Pigs.


There has been great confusion in the
names of these, owing to their being
called after the different counties.
towns and estates where bred, although
differing little or nothing in color or
characteristics. In consequence OF this,
the Agricultural Societies in Great Brit
ain have recently determined to put an
end to these numerous names, and now
reduce the whole to about eight classes.
They have taken all the white swine in
the kingdom, and amalgamated them
to three breeds, designating them as
Large Whites" Middle Whites" and
Small Whites" In the same manner
they have named the black swine, al
though there is not so great difference
in the respective weights as with the
whites. The three former vary, full
grown, from about 800 to 900 pounds.
Some few have attained still larger
weights, even as high as 1900 pounds;
but the pork of such is coarse and of
INFERIOR quality, ana therefore latterly
avoided. The three latter vary, full
grown, from go to 700 pounds. In
consequence of their being more par
ticularly adapted to turn out tender,
lean, juicy hams and shoulders for
smoking, and side-picces for bacon. the
Berkshire and the Tamworth breeds
are to be kept distinct as now; for the
former have more or less white mingl-
ed with Their black, and the Tamworth
reddish-brown spots on rather dirty
white ground. We wish the above class
ifications of the breeds of swine could
be adopted by our own agricultural
societies. -American Agricult4rist.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-05-19
For home wear we now have tea gowns,
morning gowns, chamber robes, and l0unglng

I For home wear we now have tea gowns
| morning gowns, chamber robes, and lounglng
| gowns.
woman by way Of experiment tied pc
| dometer to her chin, and discovered that she
talked 80 miles between breakfast and
lunch.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker carries the
idea Of female emancipation so far as to de-
mand that half of the police force in large
cities consist Of women.
Fancy cakes for afternoon teas now come in
the form Of tennis racquets, whips, Alpine
sticks and mallets.
There should be a law to fine the man at
hotels who uses slice of bread to collect the
last drop of soup.
New peas from the South are tender and
delicious-too nice to be conveyed on knife
blade to any mouth.
At a clerical dinner lately there were West
minister soup, sweetbreads la st. Paul, bish-
ops pudding and Palestine fruits.
A family in Lexington, Ca, are the owners
OF a litter of ten pups only few weeks old.
One morning they were visited by one of the
family, and imagine the surprise at finding
an old cat and litter of kittens in the same
box with the pups all seemingly happy in the
companionship Of the other.
Mrs. Mary Cunningham, of Bucksport, Me-,
Is a strong anti-tobaeconist. She used the
weed for sixty-three years, but since she stop
ped, not long ago, she says she feels like a
girl again, and she wishes that she had stop
ped long ago.
A visitor to the penitentiary at GAINESVILLE,
Ohio. while casually looking through the
institution last week. discovered in one Of the
prisoners a brother of his who had run away
from home at the age of seven years, and was
supposed by the family to have been drown
ed.
Awife who often stormed at her husband
was sitting with him at the breakfast table,
when suddenly, amid loud coughing:-"Dear
me-" she exclaimed, "a bit of pepper has got
into my windpipe." Hurricane pipe, you
mean, my DEAR" cody rejoined her spouse,
glad of the opportunity Of paying her little
debt.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-05-19
them into substantial form. The othe-

them into substantial form. Tho cthe-
real creatures of her imagination come
quite as readily, at her bidding to the
tree-top as to the eyrie above the roof.
1t is her habit, as with the majority
of authors, to write almost wholly in
the early portion of the day while at
her Concord home. At intervals, when
an especially interesting topic is en-
crossing her attention, aportion of the
afternoon hours are passed. at her desk.
Never does she allow herself to take
up the pen in the evening. believing
that labor at night, although delightful.
is objectional in hygienic point of
view. Few writers are more happy in
their work, in their surroundings, in
their home life, than is Margaret Sid.
ney. There are few whose privilege it
is to do well in an atmosphere so
thoroughly surcharged with literary
feeling. None can more thoroughly
her good fortune than Mrs.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-05-19
A Ramrod Through His Arm.

One of Cambria's old residents, Mr..
Eubanks, was cleaning gun a few
days ago. using a rag saturated with
coal-oil, and while attempting to with
draw the rag from the barrel with hot
iron ramrod, the gun exploded, sending
the ramrod into HIS wrist, penetrating
the arm almost to the elbow. The rod
could not be pulled out until it was
festennd into wise and help given
San FRANCISCO Bulletin.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-05-19
Women and Nickets,

There is no place which gives better OPP
portunity to study the differences of the sexes
than street car. said conductor to st.
Louis Globe reporter. Take any party of
gentlemen entering car every man will try
to pay the fare for the whole crowd. but take
the same number of women--did YOU ever see
one ofthem offer to pay the fare for the party
or even for the second member of the party?
never did, and I've been on the back plat
form for eight years. A woman when she
comes down town with crowd always loads
her pockets with nckes-she takes care to
get the change at corner grocery or drug
store-and when the conductor gets round to
her she pumps out her nickel and let's her
neighbor do the same, She will even lend a
friend nickel sooner than pay her fare. I've
seen them lend each other nickels time and
time again. and sometimes, when they have
no nickel, they viii say to each other: 'I'll
pay your fare going down; you pay mine
coming back"
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-05-19
Who Would BE a Brewer2

The New York brewers sold about
1000, 900 barrels of beer in 1886, 50
that at the estimated profit of 81 a
barrel they made 100000. This
divided among the eighty of this
neighborhood. gives $50 apiece;
but while few made SO little. many
made great deal more-one having
sold nearly 100000 barrels, and three
or four having made over 200 OOG
barrels, or dollars. Many of them
live quite grandly, the mansion that
one has built fronting the park being
one of the finest homes in the city,
and of course they don't do any man.
ual work; in fact many of them have
had their riches forced upon them, and
haven't the ability to do the work OF the
humblest of their clerks. There is o
college in town for teaching brewing,
where four boys year get that educa.
ton free. The business will grow as
the country grows, and has grown, so
that some of the graduates may be re-
garded as certain to be very rich men.
Is this chance TO recommend to a
youth to strive forp After long ac-
quaintance with many brewers I say
decidedly no. l would not put boy
in the business nor go into it myself
under the most advantageous circum-
stances. In many respects their riches
are earned the hardest of any moneys
made in New York. This is said not
from temperance standpoint, but be-
cause of the lives the brewers have to
lead and the things they have to do to
make their money. For instance, they
are obliged to drink like the suction
pipe of a steam engine. Whenever
customer begins business, or opens
new saloon, or refurnishes an old one,
the brewer must come and spend mon
ey like water and drink like a fish 1t
is just the same when customer has
a wedding or n christening, or takes
partner, or docs anything that furnish
es an excuse for inviting the brewer
around to divide portion of his pro-
fits. He would be stingy if he didn't
spend the money and disrespectful if
he didn't drink, and in either case he
would lose his customer Fancy a
man at the head of a great business
and possessing great wealth obliged to
get drunk four nights week to keep
his business. True, few don't do it,
but employ hail fellows to take their
places, yet most of these fellows had to
do exactly that in building up their
business
Then, again, the average New York
brewer is at the beck and call of the
saloon keeper in many other ways.
They arc expected to lend money on
every sort of pretense, to go bail for
their customers whenever they are ar
rested and whatever it may be for, to
60 to their weddings. christenings,
balls, and to subscribe money for every
device that liquor dealer can invent
to beg for. Providence Journal.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-05-19
JOe'S STYLE.

1t is announced that Joe Howard, the
well-known newspaper correspondent,
will write biography of the late
Henry Ward Beecher. If he employs
the jerky style seen in his newspaper
letters the biography will open in this
fashion:
Mr. Beecher was born in Litchfield,
Conn, June "a, 1918.
The weather was beastly.
His parents chrstened him Henry
Ward.
He didn't object.
1t was good enough name-for >
boy.
He would have had different name
ii he had been a girl.
And don't you forget -Norristown
Herald.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-05-19
A Southern Heroine.

Mrs. Shackelford, a youthful widow
who manages cotton plantation of
$500 acres near Pleasant Hill, in Ala
bama, is now in New Orleans, and is
looked upon as heroine for the BRAY
cry she exhibited during a murderous
assault upon her by one of the colored
laborers on her plantation. Her maid
en- name was Annie Perrine, and she
was educated at Vassar college. When
Is years old she returned to her father S
| home in Alabama, and soon afterward
was married to A. p. Shackelford, OF
| Virginia. She then had an income of
nearly $50 600. but during visit to
| California with her husband her for
tune was swept away as if in single
night. Instead of giving up IN despair
she kept the wolf from the door by
corresponding with New York journals
until she saved enough to pay her way
back to her fathers home. On reach
ing there she was called upon to face
another emergency. Years and past
troubles had so silvered the locks of
her father that he had been unable to
run the place as he had in bygone days,
and debt of $4,000, bearing heavy
interest, was increasing SO rapidly that
it was only a question of time for the
mortgage to swallow up the old
homestead. She became her father s
manager, and in doing this she was
compelled to be in the saddle from
4 o'clock in the morning till night,
and this has been her life since she
was II years of age. And at the end of
five years her husband died. and she
was left a widow with one child, now a
bright little fellow of four years. Three
years ago she paid off every dollar on
the plantation. She raises every year
1870 bales of cotton. besides corn and
market supplies for home consumption
and sale. A portion of the plantation
is leased to colorcd laborers, and she has
to collect rents from 1856 tenants. She
HAS Slctl lIOuDlC Will SOllc Vi Inc
strange colored tenants, and servant
girl, in revenge for refusal to 90 to q
dance, poisoned her little boy. The
baby lay at deaths door for awhile,
but finally recovered. On the 25th of
last January she unexpectedly returned
to the house and found n huge colOred
man in her room searching for valua-
bles. She presented a pistol at his
head and ordered him to surrender.
He advanced upon her armed with a
razor, and she snapped the pistol but
it proved to be unloadcd, and in the
struggle that ensued she received
twenty-seven wounds. She sank ex-
hausted, and her assailant escaped from
the house. As soon as he turned to
flee she seized another pistol, mounted
her horse, and ovcrtakng the ruflian,
brought him down with a successful
shot, and he was taken to prison.
After being confined to her room for
some time with her wounds, she re-
covered.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-05-19

Sam Sample is quite a student and conse-
quently u great admirer of the intellectual,
especially in the fair sex. The other evening
he was attending party, and made the ac-
qualntance ola young lady whose features
were decidedly of an intellectual cast. After
a number of attempts he succeeded in getting
her to sit out one of the dances with him.
After few preliminary remarks Sam opened
with: (which of Shakespeares plays do you
admire the most?" "Oh, really don't know;
did Shakespeare write "a Bunch of KeysY'
am ready to say that | admire that the most,
without seeing any OF the others" "Yes, ~
said Sam, ''it's nice evening, isn't it?" ooh,
perfectly divine. Isn't it just too lovely.
was afraid it was going to be stormy this eve
ming 1t was very cloudy this afternoon.
Yes, it was; but it's nice tonight, and alls
well that ends WELL" Why. Mr.. Sample. Pm
surprised; everybody says you are so original. y
Indeed! l feel CompImentcd; but why are
you surprised" "I'm sure I've heard that
remark about ending well somewhere before.
Merchant Traveller
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-05-19
That's the Question.

In the office of society journal. -
Editor Ito riend)-"You see l must
keep up appearances. This new car
pet is attractive; don't you think SOP"
Fricnd-"Very."
Editor-''You see I'm always max.
ing ACKNOWLEDGEMENT putting
something into the office"
Friend-"Yes, that's so, but say,
when are you going to put something
In your Paperp"-ArkansaU Traveller.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-05-19
The Successful Remedy for Nasai
Catarrh

Must be non-irritating, easy of application,
and one that will, by its own action reach all
the remote sores and liberated surfaces The
history of the efforts to treat catarrh during
the past few years demonstrate that only one
remedy has met these conditions, and that is
Ely's Cream Balm. This safe and pleasant
remedy has mastered Catarrh as nothing else
has ever done, and both physicians and patients
freely cOncede this tact. The more distressing
symptoms quickly yield to it, aud multitude
of persons who have for years borne all the
worry and pain that catarrh can inhict, testify
to radical and permanent cures wrought by it.
EIy's Cream Balm is perfectly soothing, exctes
no dread, d.ssOlves the hardened accumula.
tions, lessons the extreme senstbility of the
nerve centers to cold and all external irritants,
and is followed by no reaction whatever.